"The inflation rate for food has eased by approximately 40 percent, namely from a rate of 8.3 percent to a rate of 5 percent at present. Of course, we are not yet at the point we want to be, which is under 2 percent," Development and Competitiveness Minister Kostas Skrekas stated in an interview with Parapolitika radio on Thursday.
Skrekas also added that "inflation in super markets is almost zero," relative to the previous year.
He said that high prices "are the biggest problems facing households and the top priority for the government is to find a way to address it".
Referring to general inflation, he said this is currently at about 3 percent in Greece, "from which point we believe we will have a de-escalation in the coming months. The fastest easing is recorded in food and is due, mostly, to the government's measures. Greece has assumed the most measures in comparison with all other European countries."